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The Intelligence from The Economist

Bear backed: Xi heads to Moscow

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Global News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The visit of Xi Jinping, China’s president, to Moscow may seem like the solidifying of a simple, anti-Western alliance. But China is walking a delicate line to look after its own interests. A growing minority of young people simply do not want to drive; that will have consequences far beyond roadways. And research on colonising the Moon goes underground.


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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

0:39.0

Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer.

0:42.0

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:50.0

Among lots of rich countries, young people are just falling out of love with cars.

0:55.0

A growing minority doesn't drive, doesn't even have licenses.

0:59.0

In the long run, that could have big political implications.

1:04.0

And colonizing the moon would be an enormous undertaking, not least because the conditions on the lunar surface are so dangerous.

1:13.0

We look at some new research that gets around all that by going underground.

1:26.0

First up though.

1:36.0

Russia's president Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit this weekend to the occupied Ukrainian city of Maripol.

1:47.0

Just a day after the international criminal court issued a warrant for Mr. Putin's arrest for alleged war crimes,

1:53.0

there he was driving himself around the city's streets.

2:02.0

This Kremlin-approved footage shows how Mr. Putin seized the war.

2:06.0

He started reclaiming Russian lands and Slavic peoples, rebuilding and reviving long gone empire.

2:13.0

There'll be more echoes of history starting today.

2:17.0

Mr. Putin is back home to host a state visit for China's president, Xi Jinping,

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